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(No Model.)

W. WARREN.

. STAIR PAD. No. 281,325.

`Patented July 17, 1883.

N. PETERS. Phmo-Lithawhar. ylnhingten. ILC.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIC WILLIAM vVVARRFIN, OFV WARREN, RHODE ISLAND.

sTAlR-PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 281,325, dated vJuly 17, 188?.

Application filed February 2G, 1853. (No model.)

To all 20710771/ if, 77ml/ concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM WARREN, of Warren, in the State of Rhode Island, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Stair-Pads; and I do hereby declare J(hat the following specification, taken in connection with the drawings making a part of the same, is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Figure 1 shows one side of a section of the pad material previous to folding. Fig. 2shows the opposite side. Fig. 3 shows Va section of the pad material folded. Fig. 4 shows the.

same stitched.

The object of my invention is to produce a stair-pad which can be more quickly, cheaply, and easily made than those now in use, and which at the same time will be more durable; and it consists in placing a layer of cotton or other fiber betweena netting and a fabric-,and the subsequent folding and stitching of the same, as described.

The stair-pads now in use consist of a bag of cloth, which is rst sewed up and afterward lled with cotton, properly distributed, and nally knotted or tied in a number of places, to prevent the displacement of the cotton when the pad is subjected to wear. The amount of hand-work required is very considerable, and much enhances the cost of the manufactured article. In myinvention I do away with much of the hand-labor without substituting anything in its place. Y

In the manufacture of my improved pads a film of cotton is introduced into a machine,

and during its passage through it receives upon one side, as shown in Fig. 2, a thin fabric or cloth, which passes through suitable sizingrolls before itreaches the cotton, which puts `.it in a condition to stick to and hold the cotton in place. After the material comes from the machine, as described, it is cut up into sections A and B, as shown in Figs. l and 2. The ends are then folded over at the places indicated by dotted lines c c, Fig. 2, forming the pad D,Yas shown in Fig. 3, which is now completed by simply stitching it around the edge upon three sides by a machine, as shown in Fig. 4.' It will be readily seen that the making of the bag and the staying of the cotton by knotting or tying is rendered unnecessary, and that the folding7 as described, will bring the cloth attached toY one sideof the seotion to the exterior of the entire completed pad. A cloth or netting may be put onto the remaining side of the film, if desired, at the same time and in the same manner as shown in Fig. 1, although I do not consider such an addition necessary.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A stair-pad composed of a layer of cotton,

having upon one side a netting and upon the other a fabric or cloth, the whole folded and stitched, substantially'as described.

IILLIAM WARREN.

VItn esses:

WALTER B. VINCENT, CHARLES II. TI'rUs. 

